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NOVEMBER 1, 1963
Lê Quang Tung, loyalist head of the South Vietnam Special Forces, was executed in a U.S.-backed coup against president Ngô Đình Diệm following a period of religious unrest.
Colonel Lê Quang Tung was the commander of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces under the command of Ngô Read More
NOVEMBER 1, 1141
After Empress Matilda released her rival King Stephen, he in turn released Robert of Gloucester, her strongest supporter, thus prolonging the Anglo-Norman civil war known as The Anarchy.
Empress Matilda, also known as Empress Maud, was one of the claimants to the English throne during the civil war known as Read More
NOVEMBER 1, 1959
After being struck in the face with a hockey puck, Jacques Plante played the rest of the game wearing a face mask, now mandatory equipment for goaltenders in ice hockey.
A hockey puck is either an open or closed disk used in a variety of sports and games. There are designs made Read More
NOVEMBER 1, 1944
World War II: An American F-13 Superfortress made the first flight by an Allied aircraft over Tokyo since the Doolittle Raid in April 1942.
World War II or the Second World War was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all Read More
NOVEMBER 1, 1941
American photographer Ansel Adams (pictured) shot Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, one of his most famous photographs.
Ansel Easton Adams was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Read More
NOVEMBER 1, 1956
The Indian states Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Karnataka were formally created under the States Reorganisation Act.
Kerala is a state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the Read More
NOVEMBER 1, 1214
Byzantine–Seljuk wars: Seljuq Turks captured the important port city of Sinope.
The Byzantine–Seljuk wars were a series of conflicts in the Middle Ages between the Byzantine Empire and the Seljuk Sultanate. They shifted Read More
NOVEMBER 1, 1824
The disposable ship 'Columbus (pictured) arrived in the The Downs off England, becoming, at that time, the largest vessel to have crossed the Atlantic Ocean.
A disposable ship, also called raft ship, timber ship, or timber drogher is a ship or sea vessel that is intended for Read More
NOVEMBER 1, 1914
World War I: The first contingent of the First Australian Imperial Force (soldiers pictured) departed Albany, Western Australia.
World War I or the First World War, also known as the Great War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Read More

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